Napkin ring and holder



(No Model;) G. A. BAHN.

NAPKIN RING AND HOLDER.

- No. 293,396. Patented Feb. 12, 1884.

WITNESSES: I I I fl%w zz ATTORNEYS.

UNITED nTEs PATENT OFFICE.

ens AfBAHlfL'OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

NAPKIN RING AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 293,396, dated February 12, 1884. Application filed December 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUS A. BAHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Austin, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Napkin Ring and Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention disposed as a napkin-ring; and Fig. 2 is a view of the device, showing it applied as a napkin-holder; V

My invention is in the nature of a combined napkin ring and holder, designed to receive the napkin after it is folded, or to be used as a device for sustaining the napkin at the neck of the user when at the table. It consists in a yoke-shaped piece of metal having a hinged In the drawings, B represents a bowed or yoke-shaped strip of metal, and A is a section or strip of corresponding transverse dimension, hinged at a to one of the ends of the piece said slot.

B, and'connected to the other end of said piece B by a spring-catch, b. When, said ends are connected by the section A, the device forms a closed band or ring, into which the napkin is inserted in the usual way. Upon the outside of one of the sides of the yoke Bis attached a sliding clasp, G, fastened thereto by a slot and a headed stud, e, passing through kin-holder, the section A is opened on its hinge, and the bowed or curved portion 13 is hooked into the collar or wearing-apparel at the neck, as shown in Fig. 2, with the clasp (ion the Now, to use the device as a napoutside and the napkin caught between the latter and the section B. After the meal is over, the napkin-holder is detached, the section A is closed, and the napkin is folded and passed through the device asa ring.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A combined napkin ring and holder, consisting of the two sections A and B, hinged together, and provided with a catch for fastening them, and a sliding clasp-piece, G, substantially as and for the purpose described.

GUS A. BAHN.

W'itnesses:

OSCAR MONFORT, JOHN L. MAHLER. 

